Djemal Pasha, the Turkish military governor of Palestine, offers to let Jews return to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem to pray - but only if they pay him 100,000 Francs.

In June 1916, Djemal Pasha had banned Jews from praying at the Wailing Wall and in November 1916 he had a barricade installed to block their access to it. This was all because he found that they were preying for the re-establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. This is contrary to the colonial interests of Turkey.